Joss Whedon Assembles the Avengers?

Updated on April 14, 2010 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

News is that Whedon is close to signing to direct the Avengers movie.  Certainly they can’t wait much longer on this, since the film is due in 2012 and obviously will require a lot of pre-production, especially in that it will be joining together characters and plot threads from several separate movie skeins;  Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk.

I don’t really have any problem with Whedon as a director, per se, and he’s worked with Marvel before, having written one of the zillions of X-Men comics for several years.  Still, I hope his Avengers script–because it’s inevitable he’ll rewrite the screenplay, I’m sure– is more Firefly and less Buffy and Angel.  I really don’t need to see the Avengers sitting around making a lot of pop culture quips.

Hmm.

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  • Ericb

    If they made quips would Captain America’s quips come from the 1940s and Thor’s from the the Viking era? That might actually be intereseting.

  • Heli

    Avengers sitting around making quips? Sounds like Ultimates to me.

  • Elizabeth

    Well, I’m sure everything will be fine as long there’s a nubile, mentally-damaged young woman who kicks real high. Because that’s feminism!

  • Mr. Blue

    So he’ll try to fit Summer Glau in this then?

  • Yes, 100 pound women beating up scads of 200 pound guys is the very height of feminism…not to mention reality.

    I always liked how the crazy girlfriend on Burn Notice always grabbed a weapon before hitting a guy. That woman has bones like a bird, but give her a big-ass wrench? Yeah, then I believe she could do some damage.

  • Heli

    Well, women don’t get much tinier than The Wasp. Maybe she can be the requisite Waif Fu expert.

    She could get extra teeny and fly into some guy’s ear to whomp on his eardrum or something.

  • Actually, the ear attack in an old favorite of both the Wasp and Ant-Man. But the requisite waifish butt-kicker will be the Black Widow, played by 5′ 4″ Scarlett Johansson. She’ll first appear in the new Iron Man movie.

  • Reed

    I am not happy about Whedon doing the Avengers. There is something about all of the Whedon products that I have seen that leaves me unimpressed. I have friends that were fanatical followers of various Whedon shows, so I have been exposed to a large cross-section of his work. The Avengers movie I have in my head and Whedon do not mix. Of course, there is no chance that my heavily silver-age movie would ever get made, so…

    On the other hand, if this news actually gets people into the theaters to see an Avengers movie then its a good thing. I want it to do well. Of course, I also want it to be a movie that I can enjoy, but I still want it to make a lot of money so that they’ll make more.

    And Scarlett Johanson will look perfect as Black Widow. She may not be able to pull off a convincing Russian accent (if they even try), but she will LOOK perfect.

  • fish eye no miko

    I’m less concerned with the pop culture stuff and more annoyed at the prospect of him pointlessly killing off a major character for really no damn good reason. Oh, and he’ll make one of the female characters gay, too. Cuz that’s hawt.

  • Heli

    Ah, yes; I know of the ear sting, but it’s not usually actually physically beating on the inner ear. A fine distinction, I know.

    And while she’ll surely be a butt-kicker, ScarJo is far from what I consider waifish.

    Maybe Whedon will create a new character to fulfill his requirements. Like Sentry, only in the body of a 14 year old girl.

  • Johansson may not be as skinny as a lot of stars (although apparently she’s dumped a lot of weight lately–from where, I don’t know). But again, she’s five foot four, and I’m sure she’ll be beating up a plethora of dudes over six feet tall and outweighing her in muscle mass by a hundred pounds.